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Wooly Moss Roots {giveaway}

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Today’s giveaway is from Jeff and Taryn of Wooly Moss Roots.  They have lots of exciting news, and I am so glad that they are here today to share it with all of you!  Be sure to follow along at Taryn’s Blog, and “like”  Wooly Moss Roots on Facebook.
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“Hi everyone and thanks to Ginny for inviting us back here today. Many of you already know us from before on Ginny’s blog, but for those of you who don’t, we are The Wilson Family- Jeff, Taryn, and Bracken. When we are not creating, we’re busy on our small homestead usually in the garden or the kitchen.

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Jeff is the wood wizard around here and he makes some gorgeous buttons. We’re a good pair since I’m a knitter and love using his handmade buttons all the time. Plus I really enjoy spreading the love and offering the special buttons he makes to other knitters, sewers, and crafters of all kinds. I like photographing each unique set and listing them in the shop, but what I love most of all is hearing from our customers and getting to see pictures of all the beautiful things they are creating with them. That’s my favorite part. (And that’s why I’m filled with glee every time I visit our Ravelry group and there’s a new project posted there!)

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Jeff was going strong, sanding buttons and woodburning them, but he did what he tends to do: work, work, work nonstop. His body started rebelling and he started getting tendonitis in his elbow.  At the same time he was struggling with some sciatic pain. Things he’d always done easily before, in our work and on the homestead, became challenging for him to say the least. We knew we wanted to keep doing what we loved for our business, but at the same time not work his body like a machine. We embraced some new technologies we’d never considered before and started using a laser machine.

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The laser machine made it possible for him to take designs and burn them into the wood, rather than woodburn and carve everything by hand. I can’t say how exciting this was for us! Spending more of his time doing design work and less time carving and woodburning made his tendonitis disappear. (He’s been busy creating wooden jewelry with the help of the new tool and the next step is to start burning designs on our buttons, which we’ve just been beginning to do.) He’s still doing quite a bit of sanding and we will continue to offer our high-end wooden buttons that we are so fond of, but we will also be offering some other options that are a bit more affordable. In addition to our fabric buttons, we are now offering coconut buttons with all sorts of designs. We found some beautiful coconut buttons and have been having so much fun burning designs on them (give us your requests if you’d like to see something in particular.) Just this week Jeff came into the house from the shop with a huge grin on his face and showed me his very first wooden shawl pin with a design burned into it with the laser. Check out the new offerings (there are some fun wooden knitting magnets as well), exciting things are happening around here these days!

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For today’s giveaway, Jeff and Taryn are offering a lovely gift bundle including:  a wooden knitting magnet in Oregon myrtlewood that says: “I Knit Therefore I Am,”one set of eight buttons in winner’s choice of: honeybees in juniper wood or chickens in myrtlewood, and one set of eight coconut buttons in winner’s choice of: butterflies, trees, chickens, flowers, or Celtic knots.

In addition receive 10% off in both of Jeff and Taryn’s shops: Wooly Moss Roots and Mystic Orb, when you use the coupon code: NOVEMBERLOVE at checkout. The coupon code will be good through Thursday, November 20th.

For your chance to win, simply leave a comment on this post!  Comments are closed and the winner is KC who commented, “What stunning buttons!  I adore all of Jeff’s creations.”

Thanks Jeff and Taryn,and  Wooly Moss Roots!

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  5. I would love to win these beautiful buttons. They would make any knitting project a family heirloom. The shawl pink is exquisite. Such workmanship is not usually found today in our mass produced society. So nice to see someone care so much about the work their design and produce. I would be proud to be an owner of these gems.

  6. I’ve been a long-time fan your beautiful work… the earrings, the necklaces, in addition to the buttons. I love being able to wear a reminder of the trees. Hope to see you at the Holiday Market!

  16. These are fabulous! Love the bees! Glad he found a solution to continue work he loves without pain. I sure can relate to that.

  21. i love woolly moss roots! i have one of their necklaces,which i treasure.buttons from them would be awesome on the sweaters i’m planning…thank you so much for the giveaway!

  24. Such a fan, of the buttons and the blog! Thanks for the opportunity. I’m looking for buttons for Christmas sweaters for my two boys – they’d adore the chickens (for the little guy) and the trees (the Tolkien-loving eldest, who would immediately assume they are the white tree of Gondor).

  29. Whenever I finish a knit and need buttons, they are the first (and usually only) place I go. Such beautiful workmanship!

  33. I just came across your blog, oh I love it, and those buttons are adorable, would live a chance to win

  36. I am knitting a sweater now that could use a set of Wooly Moss buttons! How exciting to see such lovely choices!

  42. Beautiful items! I’ve made 3 women’s cardigans since I began knitting in the summer of 2013. These buttons would have been great on the sweaters. Now I am knitting my mom a sweater for Christmas. Keep up the lovely work!

  46. dear Taryn and Jeff,

    don’t know if you remember to have sent some buttons to Belgium, about a year ago,
    and some weeks ago I finished my daughters sweater with the buttons, they are gorgeous !!!
    you should know for how many people already asked me where they came from !
    I’m sorry to live so far away of your beautiful business,
    wish you all succes,
    and thanks for again a chance to win your gifts !
    Nele.